Please note, if we are unable to offer you your first choice we may offer you a place on one of our other courses.

Workshops will be held in Armenia/Ukraine led by senior journalists and highly- experienced trainers from the BBC, AFP and the other international media organisations in the consortium. The training will be practical and hands on.

Courses

1) BBC News Reporting Course
• Making stories relevant and engaging for the audience
• Understanding the EU and its relationship with its neighbours
• Journalistic ethics
• Effective news gathering
• Professional interviewing techniques

Requirements
• You will have worked in an established media outlet of any platform for at least 2 years as a reporter or editor.
• Ideally you will have an interest in covering international news, especially concerning the EU and related subjects.

You will be expected to attend two, three full-day workshops, which will be held within a year of each other. Between the two workshops you will be expected to produce a portfolio of stories, which will be evaluated during the 2nd workshop by professional media trainers.

2) Multi-Platform Ethical Journalism
• Basics of multi-platform journalism
• Creating professional content for on-line
• Techniques of mobile reporting
• Ethics and responsibilities of on-line journalism
• Citizen journalism
• Building on-line communities, involving the audience
• Search Engine Optimization
• Blogging, Social Media and Online Curation.

Requirements: you will have one or more of the following:
• Basic experience as a multi-media journalist
• Current involvement in multi-media or on-line journalism
• Experience in blogging and the use of social media for news production, distribution and citizen activism
• Editorial experience in multi-media environment

This is a 2 full- day course

3) Media Managers and Senior Editors on Professional and Financial Independence
• Business planning
• Strategic marketing
• Developing practical tools – mechanics of selling advertising preparing price lists, negotiation techniques
• Effective broadcast scheduling
• Managing multi-platform content
• Newsroom management, including integrated newsrooms
• Foreign desk management
• EU and its policies towards your country and region
• HR development
• Winning donor grants and project management

Requirements: you will have experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Current managerial or senior editorial position in a media outlet
• Media sales
• Programming or scheduling
• Audience research
• Newsroom management or foreign desk management
• News producer
• Media business management
• Donor relations and project management

This is a 3 full-day course

Application and Information
To apply please send a CV and a letter outlining your experience and your suitability to media.neighbourhood@bbc.co.uk by 24th September 2012. Please also specify the course you are applying for.

Please include the names and current email addresses and phone numbers of at least two referees at a senior level with whom you have worked and whom you would be happy for us to contact.

• Information
• The Media Programme